Historical Events for 17th August 2025

1819 – The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand’s second mission station at Kerikeri
1835 – Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, patents the first wrench
1908 – Projection in Paris of the first animated cartoon, “Fantasmagorie,” created by Émile Cohl
1984 – Pete Rose returns to the Cincinnati Reds as a player-manager and gets two hits in the game
1987 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for the first time (2,700.57)
2008 – Gulnara Samitova-Galkina of Russia wins the 3,000 m steeplechase gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a world record time of 8:58.81
2022 – Possible second smaller impact crater that wiped out the dinosaurs, the “Nadir Crater,” 8.5 km across, is identified off the coast of Guinea, West Africa
2023 – First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit begins in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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